FY 2015 Publications

War, Poetic Imagination, and Ethics

Author Naoyuki Date, Mariko Hori, Toru Sato, and Naomi Tonooka
Publication date March 30, 2016
Publisher Suiseisha
price 3,500 yen
Project name Contemporary Poetry, Theatre, War, Conflict, and Disaster: A Quest for Ethics and Expression of Healing
Research Department Humanities Research Department
table of contents
  • ・Preface
  • The Abbey Theatre in the 1920s: Robinson, O'Casey, Yeats and the Memories of War
  • - Looking to the Apocalyptic Age: Samuel Beckett after World War II
  • The Northern Ireland Troubles and Greek Tragedy: Seamus Heaney's The Healing of Troy: A Variation on Sophocles' Philoctetes
  • ・The materialism of pain: questioning the ethics of the Iraq War and American theater
  • ・Afterword
Testimonial This book selects well-known Western theatrical works and attempts that depict attitudes toward and overcoming difficulties and oppression in the traumatic situations caused by wars during and after the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries, and then reexamines the significance of these works from the perspective of the desire for "healing" and the "ethics" that govern it.
Judgments about the "ethical" correctness of "healing" from various standpoints can sometimes lead to fierce conflict and violent tensions. By dividing the period from the first half of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century into four periods and carefully examining the individual contexts of each era and country, the findings will provide important insights for our contemporary judgments and actions as we confront the difficult and violent realities of war and terrorism.

The World After 3/11 and the Bible: Restoring the Word

Author Yuko Fukushima, Ken Omiya, Yutaka Sakon, Scott Heifman (co-authors)
Publication date March 25, 2016
Publisher Publishing Bureau of the United Church of Christ in Japan
price 1,700 yen
Project name The World After 3/11 and the Bible: Restoring the Word
Research Department Christian Culture Studies Department
table of contents Introduction

 

Chapter 1
Memories and testimonies

 

Chapter 2
From Creation to New Creation: Jesus, Judgment, and the Tsunami and Fukushima Disasters

 

Chapter 3
Recovering Chaotic Memories and Words: Believers and Churches Surviving Crisis

 

Chapter 4
Memory of Lamentation and Recovery of Words: Imprecation in Lamentations

 

Chapter 5
Memories of Despair and the Recovery of Speech: Jesus' Miracle on the Lake

 

Chapter 6
Memory of Suffering and Recovery of the Word: The Importance of Suffering as Paul's Mission and 2 Corinthians 2:14-16a

 

Chapter 7
Remembering the Dead and Restoring Community: A Rhetorical and Historical Analysis of the Book of Revelation

 

Chapter 8
The Restoration of Humanity from the Perspective of Technology: A Biblical Perspective on Prometheus' Fire and Technology
List of first appearances

 

Afterword

Testimonial The distinctive feature of this book is that it includes testimonies from people who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake together with biblical interpretations. This was planned from the beginning of the project. The Bible itself is sometimes said to be "a book of testimonies from people who believed in God."
But what are these "testimonies"?
Witnesses try to convey what happened to them as accurately as possible to others. However, sometimes it is not possible to convey the truth. Especially if one has survived an extreme situation, they may feel frustrated by not being able to convey the truth.
There is a book in the Bible called "Lamentations." It is thought to be a collection of words uttered by people who experienced the destruction of Jerusalem in the 6th century BC, in the midst of their suffering. Putting their harsh experiences into words, writing them down, and reading them. I hope that through each of these actions, they will be engraved in our memories and transformed into hope.

Basic research on the formation of international criminal law and the acceptance and dissemination of Japanese law

Author Osamu Niikura, Yasuko Ando, Tomomi Takasa, Masao Miyazaki, Stephanie Coop, Hitomi Takemura
Publication date March 31, 2016
Publisher ──
price ──
Project name Basic research on the formation of international criminal law and the acceptance and dissemination of Japanese law
Research Department Social Science Research Department
table of contents 1. Purpose of this research project

 

2. Interim Report

 

3. Search database design

 

4. Partnership agreement with the International Criminal Court Legal Tools Project (LTP)

 

5. Search database materials

 

6. Future developments

 

References

Building a self-study system to supplement mathematics lectures

Author Atsushi Terao, Koichi Yano, Hirotaka Fushiya, and Masashi Takamura
Publication date March 31, 2016
Publisher ──
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Project name Building a self-study system to supplement mathematics lectures
Research Department Department of Natural Sciences
table of contents
  • ・About the composition of the report collection
  • - Building a self-study website to complement mathematics lectures
    (Paper presented at PC Conference Hokkaido 2013)
  • ・Developing self-study web-based materials to complement lectures on elementary analysis
    (Paper presented at the CIEC Research Conference 2014 PC conference)
  • ・Developing self-study web-based materials to complement lectures on elementary analysis
  • ・Porting to digital learning materials created with iBooks Author

Electronically excited states of functional molecular framework diarylpolyynes

Author Tadashi Suzuki, Ryo Takeuchi, and Susumu Isozaki
Publication date March 24, 2016
Publisher ──
price ──
Project name Electronically excited states of functional molecular framework diarylpolyynes
Research Department Department of Natural Sciences
table of contents Introduction

 

Chapter 1

Introduction

 

Chapter 2

experiment

 

Chapter 3

Two-photon absorption in diphenylpolyynes.

 

Chapter 4
Two-photon absorption in chlorodiphenylacetylene.

 

Chapter 5
Two-photon absorption of mono- and di-substituted diarylacetylenes

 

Chapter 6
Summary

 

Research Presentation

 

References

 

Acknowledgements

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